Taiwan-based Tyan is well known in enterprise IT as a server platform producer. June 2021 saw the introduction of its latest blade servers, including the Transport SX TS65-B8253 under review here. This 2U, two-socket rackmount server is intended for cloud storage, supporting 12 hot-swap 3.5-inch LFF drives, including four NVMe U.2 drives. It runs on

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has been offering innovative cloud solutions for some time. Back in 2018, we reviewed their bare metal instances, which were crazy fast thanks to NVMe storage and networking infrastructure that was beyond most other clouds. OCI has continued to push the boundaries with HPC instances that leverage the latest 3rd Gen

Eaton has expanded its popular 9PX UPS line with the new addition of a lithium-ion model. Lithium-Ion brings with it a host of benefits like longevity, faster charge time, and lower weight when compared to lead-acid cousins. The new 9PX UPS offers “set and forget” simplicity with power ratings from 1.5 to 3 kVA and

We’ve been spending a lot of hands-on time with the Dell EMC PowerStore arrays. We did a deployment hands-on of the all-new Dell EMC PowerStore. Then we looked at what it takes to scale PowerStore units, in this deep dive. Now we’re working to evaluate Dell EMC’s PowerStore X, which supports running applications on the

Last month Synology finally released a major overhaul of its DiskStation Manager operating system for its NAS devices (DSM 7.0). At the same time, the company made several enhancements to its quite of cloud services, Synology C2. Today we are going to look at a new feature that sits in between the two, C2-based monitoring

Synology Disk Station Manager (DSM) has been evolving steadily since it was released. Version 7, which was finally released back in June, integrated new features that embraced industry-standard security and performance enhancements while expanding its usability, reliability, performance, and scalability. In our recent Synology DSM 7.0, we found it to have a much more clean,

Last week Synology Inc. released a new secure credentials management solution for its suite of cloud services, Synology C2 Password. With all of the security issues that have been plaguing NAS devices, Synology is adding yet another step to help keep users secure. Best of all, C2 password is available now and is free.

Ansible is a great way to mass deploy changes across multiple machines. For example, I have used it to do some basic setup on a new machine and to update multiple hosts simultaneously. It is also important to keep in mind that Ansible is not only used in homelab environments, but it is also very popular in corporate environments,

The NETGEAR Orbi, and its Pro business model, are well-liked here at StorageReview. We have been reviewing models for several years now all with fairly high praise. We reviewed the original tri-band mesh router and the newer WiFi 6 version earlier this year. Today we are looking at the Orbi Pro WiFi 6 Mini or